How this directory works
Where the data comes from
Every company record is drawn from the Companies House public register through the official API, filtered to the SIC codes that automation, integration and implementation work is registered under. The data is Crown copyright and is reproduced under the Open Government Licence.
Nothing on this site is scraped from another directory. No listing, review or description is copied from a third-party site.
There is a second way in. No SIC code means "automation or AI implementation", so we also look at every active UK company whose registered name says AI. One of those is listed only when its own website displays its company number, which confirms the site is theirs, and that site describes automation or AI implementation work in two or more independent ways. Its page says which terms the site used and on what date. Nothing about that route can be bought.
What is a fact and what is a claim
Company name, number, status, incorporation date and registered office are official register facts, shown with the date they were retrieved.
Anything a company says about itself is shown in a separate block, marked Self-declared, dated, and attributed to the person who submitted it only if they asked for that. OurIdea.ai does not independently verify those statements, and says so on the page rather than in the small print.
There is no compliance badge, no rating, no price range and no tech stack unless the company supplied one. Where something is unknown the page says Not stated. It never guesses.
Claiming, correcting or removing your entry
Use the claim form, or email directory@ouridea.ai from an address on the company's own domain, quoting the company number. Either way we confirm by replying to a domain address before anything changes, because a company number is public and proves nothing on its own.
- Claim: add your own description and the tools you work with. It appears as your statement, dated.
- Correct: register facts are corrected at Companies House, not here, and flow through on the next refresh. Anything else we fix directly.
- Remove: say so and the entry is suppressed on the next build, no reason needed.
How often it updates
Once a week a job re-reads the register from Companies House and rebuilds the site when something has changed. Newly incorporated companies appear, dissolved ones drop out, and every listed company is re-read at least once every six weeks. Each company page shows the date its record was retrieved.
Why it exists
OurIdea.ai builds abi. Clone, a free tool that maps how a business actually runs before it automates anything. This directory is published because the two questions sit next to each other: what does my business actually do, and who could help me change it. It is free to be listed, free to be checked, and free to correct or remove an entry. A Profile and Featured placement are paid, and both are labelled wherever they appear.